Example sentences of "[was/were] not [adv] [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While partnerships are part of our industry 's culture , we were not even scratching the surface of the benefits that could come from taking traditional relationships many steps further , ’ he said . |
| 2 | At the start of the study 70 patients in the control group and 74 in the prompted group were not currently attending a hospital eye clinic . |
| 3 | If workers were spending their time in this way , they were not only exercising a leisure preference but were consuming a non-essential . |
| 4 | So those gentlemen were not only infringing the Sale of Goods Act they were committing a criminal offence as well by infringing the Trade Descriptions Act so they ended up being prosecuted by Trading Standards . |
| 5 | Girls were sometimes called apprentices , more often simply " learners " : indicating that they were not really acquiring a skill , just " learning on the job " , which was the standard training for most semi-skilled occupations . |
| 6 | Workers standing by were not always enjoying a leisure preference ; they were sometimes enduring an enforced and hungry idleness . |
| 7 | They were n't just humming a chorus of ‘ North Sea Sunrise ’ , the jazz tribute to the industry which the Norwegian contractor Kvaerner commissioned for its reception at Aberdeen 's Beach Ballroom . |
| 8 | He was not even wearing a watch and he needed a shave . |
| 9 | But God was not just providing a memory to cling to . |
| 10 | It was not just launching a perfume , it was giving birth to a perfume , ’ said she , who had definitely seen the shape of the bottle but still chose to stick with this metaphor . |
| 11 | On another occasion he declared that marriage was a partnership where his wife was not simply marrying the man but a way of life . |
| 12 | In future the only option is partisan struggle , Nizan was not simply playing the role of orthodox sectarian militant . |
| 13 | ‘ Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding article , the judicial or administrative authority of the requested state is not bound to order the return of the child if the person , institution or other body which opposes its return establishes that — ( a ) the person , institution or other body having the care of the person of the child was not actually exercising the custody rights at the time of removal or retention , or had consented to or subsequently acquiesced in the removal or retention ; or ( b ) there is a grave risk that his or her return would expose the child to physical or psychological harm or otherwise place the child in an intolerable situation . … |
| 14 | Only then , said Mozart , did many of the audience realize that Papageno was not actually playing the instrument himself . |
| 15 | As usual Sally-Anne was not quite telling the truth . |
| 16 | Here by calling the last witness , the judge was not only supplementing the prosecution ; he was in effect taking it over . |
| 17 | This drop-out rate from teaching was not only depriving the system of experienced teachers but also wasting resources spent on their training . |
| 18 | As one senior figure put it , ‘ She was not really running a team . |
| 19 | England 's Player of the Year was not really timing the ball , but heaven help the opposition when he does . |
| 20 | And he gets up and sees the situation and remember , he said , Jesus was n't out for joy ride , he was n't just passing an evening relaxing and unwinding and resting away from the crowd , he had gone into the boat for a purpose , he was going to the other side , and no storm was gon na stop him getting there ! |
| 21 | She was exhausted and she was n't even taking the lead in tonight 's performance . |
| 22 | and it 's much lower down , and this thing , it 's like a gap , it 's like this big around the bottom of the sink , so like it was n't even touching the sink , the , the pedestal bit under bits underneath , it 's like , it had a sort of similar sort of shape , so it should fit , but it was like , a massive gap underneath , like no |
| 23 | She was n't even wearing a bra . |
| 24 | It was n't forth garaging the car for a couple of hours , which was all the time he could allow himself . |
| 25 | Six o'clock this morning I was n't really asking a lot of questions . |
| 26 | That is , of course , when I was n't actually casting an eye at the rope and pulley high over the hall or taking a glance at the shotgun . |
| 27 | Shaney was n't actually playing a game , but she was sitting next too a women that was . |
| 28 | 2 Novella was n't only drawing a veil over her beauty , but over her femaleness , synonymous — in the descendance of Eve — with seductiveness ; and , even more fatally , with folly . |
| 29 | Simon was at a Pavement gig , but it was n't necessarily featuring the band of that name . |